2022 · comedy · drama · romance
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Directed by Cooper Raiff1h 48m2022
Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.
Our read: Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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